'Nickel Boys' director RaMell Ross says the South 'makes you question what time is'
Ross' Oscar-nominated film centers on two young Black men attempting to survive a brutal Florida reformatory school in the 1960s. He says he's sees the rural South as a "meaning-making space."
Ross' Oscar-nominated film centers on two young Black men attempting to survive a brutal Florida reformatory school in the 1960s. He says he's sees the rural South as a "meaning-making space."

Source: 'Nickel Boys' director RaMell Ross says the South 'makes you question what time is' (https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48641/nickel-boys-director-ramell-ross-says-the-south-makes-you-question-what-time-is)